Happy New Year All!

Hope everyone has a happy new year!!

I got myself a New Year's Gift...I've been looking for a Bloody Orchid Recipe for quite some time now, a while back about 4 or 5 months ago I got a bunch of BO blades, and then I got a few here and there from grinding so I've had the mats to craft it, just haven't found a recipe until today. (See post- http://aleenaresron.blogspot.com/2006/08/i-won-in-bingo.html for when I got the mats).

So, I took a chance and crafted it and it worked, so now I finally have a dagger so when people ask me to not use my Bow I don't have to use duals anymore, yay!

Two more Stratics Guides

From time to time I write some guides for Stratics to help fill in the gaps, they're pretty much my go-to place when I'm looking for a walkthru to a quest so I do what I can to do my part. I contributed two more today, I hope they get accepted! =D

http://boards.stratics.com/php-bin/lineage2/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=2342&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1

http://boards.stratics.com/php-bin/lineage2/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=2343&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1

more adena than you can shake a stick at!

We were doing some raiding and for some reason this one particular day we got a bunch of great drops. Usually we'll raid and we'll get some points, and usually alot of mats and stuff for a/s grade gear but this time we got full drops of an Angel Slayer, Draconic Bow, IC Breastplate, and IC Boots! All full S grade drops! We also on a whim did Lilith that day, which was really cool because we also managed to level a bunch of crystals up to 12 [I was dead at the end of the raid, but however your crystal will still level even if you're dead!]



I've been skimming alot of the interlude images/screenshots as they become available, and it looks like there's a new silent move texture/image where you become slightly transparent [as do your clothes apparently]



And lastly, a few shots of some of the upcoming interlude headgear because those of us obsessed with l2fashion keep up with this frivolity for some reason!

yay I got a Santa Hat!

Last Minute Christmas Gifts

So...I've been playing WAY too much l2 this year. I decided I'm going to print a bunch of these out (not TOO many) and slip some in with some of my wife's gifts. She deserves it for putting up with all my late nights of grinding I think (and not with her unfortunately).

Antharas Raid and Dead Farmers!

It's been a pretty eventful couple of days. I've been levelling pretty steadily and trying to keep pace with a few other clanmates who are also aspiring for their Noblesse title. So far I've been able to maintain roughly about a level a week, although I know that once I reach about 72/73 that will become incredibly difficult to sustain. Nonetheless, I should hit 69 with in the next two days. Hopefully 70 next week.

This past weekend we had a temporary alliance with Vestige in order to attempt an Antharas raid. We had the right amount of groups, and almost the right mix [one or two groups kept agro a little more often than they should have]. That being said, the land dragon should've gone down had it not been for the dc's which began to occur about a half an hour into the raid. We kept going, but after about two hours and half of Antharas HP we lost too many kep support classes and had to call it off.

It was definitely worth the experience, and I would definitely do it again. Running into a raid with like 40 or so of your clanmates is always fun.

And speaking of clan events, a few of our members were getting picked off from time to time by the new LOL (Syndicate/Bloodsoul) in MoS. They had like 2+ nuker parties there, so we formed up two groups to go in there and teach them a lesson. I was invited to dance for all our reds :)

There were alot more bloodsoul that whats in this ss, but as we started to kill them some of them would log, and then as we cleared the rooms and worked off some karma they would try to sneak back on to res the dead ones. Which we promptly killed again. funfunfun! no ricecakes for someone that night.

This is one of my cats.

For no other reason than "just because."

BTW- if anyone else is bored and wants to become a contributor to this blog, just send an ingame email to AleenaResron on Bartz with your email address and I'll send out an invitation.

Drops from Event

Wow, these drops from the event raid bosses are insane- they just pop like a pinata when you kill them.

The Road to Noblesse

I personally have never been so acutely aware until recently of exactly how lonely the life of a solo class like an archer might be. One of the things that was appealing to me about being a hawkeye(archer) is that there was a significant difference in gameplay from being a bladedancer. After being in so many archer groups in TOI and DVC as a bladedancer, this seemed to be a worthy path to explore. Although this is not groundbreaking in any way since many other bladedancers have gone the same route (as well as archer classes subbing a bladedancer or swordsinger). And also you can do really cool stuff as an archer lik 7k of damage per hit!

However as of late I have begun to see that this is more a solo class than a party class, although there are still TOI/DVC parties they seem to be fewer and more far between than anticipated. It is an adjustment that I am still making because that aspect of the gameplay is very different than before. As a support class (bladedancer) I was able to fit in to pretty much any party wether it be a duo or a full party. I try chatting with my buffbot every now and then, but I think he gets tired of hearing my voice.

Anyhow, I continue forward on my path to noblesse! After reaching level 65 I attempted to go back and do the Noblesse quests, I left off on the first quest at the Stakatos since at level 50 when you start the quest it really is not a reasonable expectation that you can finish this part until you're higher. I also was unable to acquire the quest item from this quest on my main class for some reason. The drop rate is also horrendous, so keep that in mind that even on my archer it took abotu 45 minutes of plowing before I got the 5 quest items. With that said, the next hardest part was getting the 500 moonstone shards- too which I owe my clanmate, Abarai Renji, a huge debt of gratitude. Without his help on the last few hundred reagent pouches I would've had to kill those 500+ shamans alone (just getting the 370 or so shards on my own was painful).

The second quest at level 60 was pretty easy, mostly just run around and deliver stuff and maybe kill an easy quest mob or two. For the third noblesse quest at level 65 I am required to take part in a raid, I am also required to be in the party that does the most damage and gets last hit. A huge thanks goes out to my clan, The Damned, for helping out on this. Duff, Anakbhaal, Wicked, Shield of Rognvald, Dieslick, Ferrion and a ton of other people in the clan in a list too long to name here were able to mobilize in incredibly short order to come to my aid to help me complete the most difficult part of the noblesse quest.

Since I got everyone into the raid mood, we went on to raid about 7 other bosses. One thing of note, is that the right buffs always mean everything! While we were raiding Queen Shayeed (I was allowed the rare priviledge of remaining on my archer), I was able to land at least 10 crits in a row, a personal record. It might have been even more but I did not have time to scroll through it all.

Lastly, this past weekend in a free for all The Damned has taken Dion Castle. I was unable to attend the siege since my wife was throwing our annual christmas/tree trimming party that day and we had guests over. However, in a moment when the throne was unoccupied I could not resist getting a screenshot.